Weeks 1-3 Introduction to Writing Non-Fiction

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Required Reading/Viewing:

• Did You Know 2.0?

• How to Write by the author of Zone 1
• George Orwell - Why I Write
• Joan Didion Why I Write
  • About Joan Didion
• Langston Hughes Theme B for English
• All Things Annotation
• George Bush “9/11 5th Anniversary Address”
• Doris Lessing Nobel Prize for Literature Speech "It is the Storyteller That Will Create Us"

• Peer and Proofreading List
• Overview of the Academic Essay

Supplemental Reading:

• Keith Carter Photographs
• Photos The Changed the World by Magnum Photo
• Ryan Lobo Ted Talk: Photographing the Hidden Story (Related to "The Stranger in the Photo is Me")
• Annie Dillard "Notes for Young Writers"
• Taylor Mali "How to Write a Political Poem"
  • textGoodman, "A Proposal to Abolish Grading"
• Taylor Mali "What Teachers Make"
  • text
  • video
  • context (from Taylor)
  • Totally Like Whatever animated
• Here I Stand Valedictory Speech by Erica Golding

Group Project: Literary Lenses
Dr. Kristi Siegal
Upon Seeing an Orange

• Reader-Response Theory
• Formalist/New Critics Literary Criticism
• Historical/Biographical Approach
• Marxist Literary Approach
• vrhsroom414/Mythological Archetypal Symbolic Approach|Mythological/Archetypal/Symbolic Approach
• Feminist Literary Criticism
• Freudian (Psychoanalytical) Literary Criticism

Officer Krupke from West Side Story-- Can you spot the lenses?

Course Works Cited MLA 2009 updated v2.doc